BILL NUMBER: ACR 90	CHAPTERED  09/27/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   141
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 10, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 7, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ducheny

                        AUGUST 31, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 90--Relative to the Archie
Moore Memorial Freeway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 90, Ducheny.  Archie Moore Memorial Freeway.
   This measure would designate the portion of Interstate Highway
Route 15 between the Home Avenue exit and the Ocean View Boulevard
exit in the City of San Diego as the Archie Moore Memorial Freeway.




   WHEREAS, It was with the most profound sorrow and deep sense of
loss that the word was received of the passing, at the age of 84, of
Archie Moore, the legendary boxer whose outstanding career endured
through four decades and a record 143 knockouts and who won the
light-heavyweight championship when he was well into his 30's; and
   WHEREAS, Mystery always surrounded Archie Moore, who claimed to
have been born on December 13, 1916, in Collinsville, Illinois, while
his mother and at least one boxing record book fixed his birth date
as December 13, 1913, in Benoit, Mississippi; and
   WHEREAS, Archie Moore passed away on December 9, 1998; and
   WHEREAS, He was born Archibald Lee Wright and, after his parents
separated, was raised by an uncle and aunt in St. Louis Missouri,
whose surname he took; and
   WHEREAS, Archie Moore had his first fight as a lightweight in
January 1936, which he won by a knockout in two rounds; and
   WHEREAS, Archie Moore continued to fight through the 1940's, 1950'
s, and 1960's, finishing with a record of 196-26-8 and one
no-contest; and
   WHEREAS, "Childe Arch" was nearly 39 years old when he was granted
a title shot, and in this bout, he won the light heavyweight
championship and went on to defend his title nine times; and
   WHEREAS, After his final bout, he moved in and out of boxing as a
trainer and served as a trainer at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal,
and, three years later, was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame; and
   WHEREAS, He served in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development during the Reagan administration, lecturing in prisons
and in boys clubs; and
   WHEREAS, Archie Moore also appeared in several motion pictures,
including the 1960 film version of "The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn," in which he portrayed Jim, a runaway slave; and
   WHEREAS, He lived in a home on E Street that he termed "Easy
Street" in San Diego on the site where, in 1946, he operated a
restaurant known as Archie Moore's Chicken Shack, and, after retiring
in 1965, he instituted his "Any Boy Can" program, a mentoring
program for at-risk youth that taught them how to box, and about
competition, sportsmanship, self-reliance, self-discipline,
confidence, and courage; and
   WHEREAS, He was renowned by state and local leaders as the
ultimate role model, a great fighter, great teacher, and great
friend, a hero who treated people with a courtesy that said they were
the stars, not him, and as an ambassador for his sport throughout
the world; and
   WHEREAS, The high esteem in which he was held by his loving
family, his numerous friends, and other individuals fortunate enough
to have known him stands as a testament for others who strive for the
best in personal, professional, public, and community life; and
   WHEREAS, His memory will live forever in the hearts and minds of
those people who knew him; and
   WHEREAS, Archie Moore leaves to cherish his memory, his wife,
Joan; his three daughters, Rena Moore, J'Marie Moore, and Elizabeth
Moore-Stump; his four sons, Archie Jr., Billy, Anthony, and D'Angelo;
and his two grandchildren; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate that the portion of Interstate Highway
Route 15 between the Home Avenue exit and the Ocean View Boulevard
exit in the City of San Diego be dedicated to the memory of Archie
Moore; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the portion of Interstate Highway Route 15
between the Home Avenue exit and the Ocean View Boulevard exit be
designated the "Archie Moore Memorial Freeway"; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
that special designation, and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those plaques and
markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
